Who wants to date a billionaire? This woman can help

Sallyanne Louisa: “Intelligence is important — they are not looking for arm candy ”JEMIMA MAY

Sallyanne Louisa never set out to become an elite matchmaker. If anything, the business of finding love for ultra high-net-worth individuals (UHNWs) found her. In 2009, working as a headhunter at a City recruitment firm, she was enjoying the hospitality at a champagne-fuelled function when she got talking to “a high-profile gentleman” who turned out to be a bit lonely.

Louisa can’t reveal the name of said gentleman, only that he’s English, “very well known” in Hollywood and that he had recently gone through a divorce. “It’s a common story,” she tells me. “He’d spent a lot of time building an incredibly successful empire. He’d neglected his marriage and found himself alone with all of this money, all these trappings of a lavish lifestyle, but…